Sentence examples for human convention from inspiring English sources

Like all things calendrical, this is a human convention.

One such human convention is the use of expressive moods and emotions as an integral part of social interaction.

In so far as their individuation is dependent on human convention, they are not ultimately real in their own right.

However, Pascal does not argue that this natural law can be discovered by reason, or that it acquires its obligatory force from human convention or contracts.

It would have meant the renunciation of the claim to unassailable knowledge and truth in favor of conjecture and, horribile dictu, of human convention.

They obviously have an important bearing on the grounds for Hui Shi's monism, since it may well be the case that arbitrary human convention is not the only basis for drawing distinctions between things and kinds of things.

I pointed out that such an attitude was common to all theocrats down the ages, claiming a divine or moral justification to run roughshod over human conventions.

Rules of justice, by contrast, are normative human conventions that promote public utility.

Modes give us the ideas of mathematics, of morality, of religion and politics and indeed of human conventions in general.

As Acemoglu (2009) remarks, references to the general circumstances of the environment that possibly have an impact on attitude, human conventions and culture can be found in de Montesquieu (1989), Machiavelli (1987) and Marshall (1997).

At the same time, Hume's account of justice and the artificial virtues does point to the importance of human conventions, which create or invent the institutions and practices associated with property and promising.